So, how many pay phones are there in the United States? Since 2007, the number of payphones in the United States in operation has declined by 48%. “At the end of 2012, the FCC reported the number of payphones at 243,487 generating $362 million falling to $286 million by 2015.”

The market is currently being served by independent payphone companies. An estimated 100,000 payphones in the US remain as of 2018. Roughly a fifth of these payphones are located in New York.

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